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An 18-year-old Lake Forest, Illinois man was killed and a teenage female companion was injured when they were struck by an Amtrak train in suburban Chicago, say reports. The pair were allegedly trespassing on railroad tracks just north of the Lake Forest, Ill., railroad stop when the train accident happened, reports say. The victims were reportedly hit by Amtrak Hiawatha Train No. 339, which was traveling from Chicago to Milwaukee. Reports say the 18-year-old victim was a Korean foreign exchange…

A train accident on May 31 took the life of 22-year-old SBBC student Stanford Heath Allison Jr. According to reports, Allison was struck and killed by an Amtrak passenger train as it made its way into the station. Reportedly, he had walked around the dropped traffic control arms and onto the tracks on a busy intersection. Allison died at the scene. Allison is survived by his parents and his brother and sister There have apparently been several people recently killed…

An Amtrak train hit and killed a teenager as she was on her way to school, after which service was suspended for some time in the Baltimore area as an investigation searched for caused of the accident. The incident delayed trains all along the US Northeast corridor. The victim has been reportedly identified as 14-year-old Ann Marie Stickle of Middle River. Reports say she had been walking along the tracks with a friend when she was hit from behind. The…

While walking on railroad tracks near their school, two teenagers were struck and killed by an Amtrak train in Delaware County yesterday morning. The girls, reported as at Interboro Senior High School students Gina Gentile and Vanessa Dorwart, from Glenolden, were supposed to be in class at the time of the 10:30 incident. A third girl was with them when the accident occurred, reports say. She was uninjured. The incident happened on a cold morning amid the snow of a…